Don't Mom Alone Podcast

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Heather MacFadyen, mother of four boys, connects you the listener with people and resources to help you feel less alone. Consider it an invitation to "withness".

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Nobody’s Mother :: Dr. Sand...

12.04.2023

Have you heard the Bible verse “Women will be saved through childbearing”? (It’s part of 1 Timothy 2:15) What do you think that verse means? What do you think it means for the woman facing infertility, or singleness? My guest ...

Don't Mom Alone Podcast episodes:

12.04.2023 Nobody’s Mother :: Dr. Sandra Glahn [Ep 443] Have you heard the Bible verse “Women will be saved through childbearing”? (It’s part of 1 Timothy 2:15) What do you think that verse means? What do you think it means for the woman facing infertility, or singleness? My guest ...
12.01.2023 Sidetracked with the Holidays :: Pie-arrhea, Dutch Cabbage Patch Dolls and Advent Fails :: Cynthia and Heather [Ep 442] Ready or not, the holidays are upon us! What are your favorite holiday traditions? What are the ones you could leave behind? Get sidetracked with Cynthia and me as we discuss everything from trees (real, fake, and Jesse) to gift ...
11.27.2023 How to Get Real and Savor More (Replay) :: Shauna Niequist [Ep 441] How are you doing? Honestly. What is the pace of your day? What do you long for and feel you are missing out on? What activities have you crammed in your life out of a “should” mentality? When do you ...
11.20.2023 Demystifying Financial Aid :: Kristi Steele [Ep 440] What do you think of when you hear the phrase “college tuition”? Does your heart rate speed up? Sending a child to college is the culmination of a lot of effort. It’s emotional and there are a lot of logistics ...
11.13.2023 Bedtime Rituals to End Worry Spirals :: Emily Ley [Ep 439] What are two words to describe your mind when your head hits the pillow most nights? The quiet space before sleep can be our most vulnerable moments. Whether it’s to-do’s or dredging up memories from the past, our thoughts can ...
11.06.2023 Parenting as a Highly Sensitive Person :: Mary Van Geffen [Ep 438] Do the sights and sounds and feels of parenting overwhelm you some days? Or most days? How can we parent kindly and intentionally when we desperately need a break from all the stimulation? My guest this week is Mary Van ...
11.03.2023 “Plump it Up”:: Sidetracked by 10 years of Podcasting [Ep 437] Pull out the petit fours and lip plumpers - it’s time to celebrate! Don’t Mom Alone has officially reached double digits!! Get Sidetracked with us as Cynthia leads us on a surprising, only mildly teary ride as we look back ...
10.30.2023 The Most Memorable Moments :: Celebrating 10 Years of Don't Mom Alone [Ep 436] Some moments create a “before” and “after” in life. Whether it’s a circumstance we live through or a person we encounter, we see the world and our lives differently after these experiences. In choosing the most memorable moments to go ...
10.23.2023 The “Five-Timers” Club :: Celebrating 10 Years of Don’t Mom Alone [Ep 435] Though I didn’t have a five-timers jacket to send them, the guests on today’s show have all been on DMA at least 5 times (some have been on double that amount!). As we celebrate ten years of the podcast we ...
10.16.2023 The “Don’t Miss” List :: Celebrating 10 Years of Don’t Mom Alone [Ep 434] How do you quantify 10 years of mom-ing together? Let’s start with what I want to make sure you don’t miss. As we inch closer to 500 episodes, I selected clips from 5 episodes over the years for us to ...
10.09.2023 Exchange False Beliefs with True Identity :: Jamie Winship [Ep 433] What hats do you wear? We’ve all heard the phrase “She wears many hats.” Maybe we’ve said it about ourselves or others. But do you know what is constant in this word picture about one person performing many roles? The ...
10.06.2023 Sidetracked with Fall, Homecoming and Sibling Conflict :: Cynthia and Heather [Ep 432] It’s mum time in Texas, y’all! Both the colorful garden flowers and the personalized faux floral and ribbon creations seen at Texas homecoming football games. Get sidetracked with Cynthia and me this week as we decode what the kids are ...
10.02.2023 “What is My Responsibility in My Child’s Salvation?” :: Vela Tomba [Ep 431] What is our role in our children’s salvation? It’s easy to hope in a formulaic approach for our kids’ salvation - to think if we just pray and have the family bible studies we’re guaranteed our kids will make an ...
09.25.2023 Ministry in the Margins :: Angel Ricchuiti and Brittany Turner [Ep 430] What is your ministry? Of course, motherhood is its own type of ministry, but did you envision something else as your “ministry”? Whether you had plans you’ve set aside or not, working at something you’re passionate about outside of your ...
09.18.2023 “Help, I’m Tired of Fighting with my Daughter about Clothes” :: Kari Kampakis [Ep 429] Admit it, you’ve seen a girl somewhere and thought, “I can’t believe her mother let her out of the house wearing that.” But if you’ve parented a teenage girl, you know it’s just not that simple. How can we connect ...
09.11.2023 My Kid Saw Porn, Now What? :: Mandy Majors [Ep 428] What would you do if your kid told you they saw porn? What would you do if you discovered porn on your child’s device? My guest this week is mom and founder of NextTalk, Mandy Majors. Her daughter was exposed ...
09.04.2023 Finding Courage to Speak Up When You’re Not OK :: Kristen Glass [Ep 427] Who do you call when it feels like your world is falling apart? Do you share your struggles with trusted friends or is it hard to open up about what is going on in your life? Toward the end of ...
09.01.2023 Sidetracked with Cynthia and Heather [Ep 426] Is Back-to-School time a mini fresh-start for you? With all the fresh supplies we get a chance to think again about who we want to be and what our daily life can look like. Get sidetracked with Cynthia and me ...
08.28.2023 Cultivating a Healthy Relationship with Tech :: Joey Odom [Ep 425] Maybe you’ve wondered if you are addicted to your phone? Or if your kids are addicted to their devices? Is addicted the right word to use? Between work and school and life it is nearly impossible to live without some ...
08.21.2023 Braving the Tech Landscape Through Connection :: Chris McKenna [Ep 424] What are your digital fears? What are the things you are afraid will happen if your child interacts with technology regularly? We all have digital fears to varying degrees, but anxiety isn’t our friend when it comes to strategies to ...
08.18.2023 Beating Expectations :: Cynthia and Heather [Ep 423] We’re baaaaaack! How was your summer? Maybe you're like us...a little laughing, crying and even vacation freak-outs. Around here you're never alone. Listen in for a fun conversation with our friend Cynthia Yanof as we chat about summer adventures and ...
08.14.2023 Back-to-School & Tech Toolkit :: Dr. Kelly Jameson [Ep 422] What helped you feel ready for a new school year as a kid? All the supplies purchased and organized? The perfect first-day outfit? What helps you feel ready for school now, as a mom? How can you advocate for your ...
08.07.2023 The Worry-Free Parent :: Sissy Goff [Ep 421] What percentage of the anxiety you feel comes from parenting? We are often most anxious about the things we care most about. That is normal! We love our kids and want to nurture and protect them, but we know anxiety ...
07.31.2023 Remaining You While Raising Them :: Alli Worthington [Ep 420] Have you felt that you’ve lost a part of yourself since having children? Maybe even “lots of” or “all” the parts? Motherhood changes us - and it should - but we need to consider our own emotional health and well-being ...
07.24.2023 The Goal Isn’t Happy Children :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 6 [Ep 419] How do you give your kids independence? At what stage do you let kids try and fail? At the heart of parenting is this job: to give our kids the skills they need to live without us. We know that ...
07.17.2023 That Time We Googled Married Sex :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 5 [Ep 418] How do you connect with your spouse? And how often? It’s easy for us to get busy parenting and adulting and then take our marriage relationship for granted. We may think we’ll focus on it when things slow down or ...
07.10.2023 Relationship + Respect (8 going on 18) :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 4 [Ep 417] What do you do when your kids are a little sassier than necessary? How do you respond? Can we shape their responses? When does it really matter? To answer those questions we need both perspective and wisdom. We’re taking time ...
07.03.2023 The Unicorn That is Adult Friendship :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 3 [Ep 416] Who are your close friends? What do you do to cultivate friendships in your life? Friendship as an adult can feel like we’re unicorn-hunting, clinging to some childhood ideal or tv show standard. But real life friendship requires risk and ...
06.26.2023 Raising Kids Who Can Stand Alone :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 2 [Ep 415] What do you feel when your child is struggling? How do you decide when to step in? Whether it's fighting for your attention from a new baby or struggling with a new skill there are times for us to intervene ...
06.19.2023 Little Liar Face :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - wk 1 [Ep 414] 12What do you do when your kid lies? What about when your kid doesn’t make the team? Is this your failure or theirs…or is it something else? We’re taking time this summer (as usual) to be mentored by an experienced ...
06.12.2023 Parenting Neurodivergent Children--Summer Edition :: Carrie Casell [Ep 413] How does your child’s behavior reflect on you? That’s a trick question - it doesn’t. But it’s easy for us to feel that it does. Parenting a neurodivergent child can heighten those feelings of guilt or shame when our child ...
06.05.2023 Mentoring for Women in the Workplace :: Diane Paddison [Ep 412] If your God-given assignment is to work outside of your home or the WFH life, how do you manage the schedules and responsibilities and feelings that accompany those places? Mothering well is always hard - whether you work outside of ...
05.29.2023 A Mash-Up of Summer Support [Ep 411] What do you feel when you hear, “It’s summertime”? Dread? Excitement? Anxiety? All three? No matter how many summers you’ve been mom-ing it’s the same - there will be fun and boredom, magical moments and fighting and we’ll be tired ...
05.22.2023 The Praying Mama :: Natasha Miller [Ep 410] What are your patterns of prayer? Has it been hard for you to fall into a rhythm of prayer? We know that prayer matters and works. It changes us, it opens our eyes to where God is at work around ...
05.15.2023 Parenting Ahead :: Kristen Hatton [Ep 409] What’s The Thing you knew that you couldn’t talk to your parents about when you were growing up? Emotions you had or mistakes you made? As moms we want to connect with our kids, we want to be their source ...
05.08.2023 Important Topics to Cover with Tweens and Teens about Manners, Technology and Friendship :: Lee Cordon [Ep 408] What do modern manners look like? Manners are simply social behaviors or habits - you can have good ones or you can have bad ones. But it's been 101 years since Emily Post first published her book on manners and ...
05.01.2023 Occupying Suffering Spaces :: Cari Trotter [Ep 407] RWYB Series Wk 6 What is a place you’d rather not go? One that sounds nearly unbearable. The DMV? The school pick-up line? What about going into a serious medical diagnosis or a financial crisis? Following Jesus is no safeguard against difficulty in life. ...
04.24.2023 Shrinking or Swelling to Fill Your Space :: Courtney DeFeo [Ep 406] Have you ever seen a “magic towel” that swells and “grows” when you put it in water? Have you shrunk a shirt in the laundry? At different times in our lives God assigns us a space that we have to ...
04.17.2023 Listening for God's Leading :: Caroline Cobb [Ep 405] RWYB wk 4 What is my God-given space? How do I figure that out? What if my God-given assignments feel at odds with one another? My guest this week is wife, mom, and singer-songwriter Caroline Cobb. She also deeply enjoys studying the Bible ...
04.10.2023 Identifying Your God-Given Space (Part 2) :: Sally Clarkson [Ep 404] RWYB Series wk 3 What is unique about your life experience? Was your first thought, “Nothing”? Even the life that feels ho-hum is unique because no one else is wired precisely like you are, experiencing life precisely like you are. My guest this week ...
04.03.2023 Identifying Your God-Given Space (Part 1) :: Cleere Cherry Reaves [Ep 403] RWYB wk 2 What do you think when you hear the word “boundary”? Boundaries keep things in, keep things out, and help us feel safe. But they can also feel limiting, and we don’t always get to choose our boundaries. That’s where my ...
03.27.2023 How to Never Miss Out :: Vaneetha Risner [Ep 402] RWYB Series Wk 1 What would it look like for you to live your best life? What if someone told you that you already are living your best life? Not because you’ve accomplished and arranged things just how you want, but because not only ...
03.20.2023 How to be Truly Strong :: Aundi Kolber [Ep 401] What does strength look like to you? Does it look like white knuckling it, holding your breath? Or does it look like putting your oxygen mask on first, and then attending to the needs of others? We all want to, ...
03.13.2023 Guided by Faith :: Candace Cameron Bure [Ep 400] 12Where do you turn for answers? Answers in parenting, answers in your career, answers when you encounter the negativity that seems to be lurking around every corner of life these days? My guest this week is a mom who came ...
03.06.2023 Talking, Teens, and Twenty-four Years :: Bruce + Heather [Ep 399] Join Bruce and Heather for a Q + A episode where they talk about the importance of connection and communication in their marriage (Happy 24th Anniversary!
02.27.2023 Students of Our Children :: Karen Stubbs [Ep 398] What does a child need to flourish? There are a million answers to that question, but in all honesty, it’s a little different for each child. We have so many tools available to us to help us see our own ...
02.20.2023 On the Role of Women :: Joel Muddamalle [Ep 397] Why do you think God created women? We know from Genesis that God didn’t say, “We have all these fish, we may as well have women too,” but instead he said, “It is not good” without women. Women take on ...
02.13.2023 Communication that Connects :: Kimberly Galindo [Ep 396] With phrases like “you complete me” our culture idealizes connection between spouses or even friends that has no boundaries. This brand of intimacy sounds appealing but it doesn’t work well practically. Our desire for connection is innate, but vulnerability is ...
02.06.2023 Parenting Sensitive and Intense Kids :: Lynne Jackson and Lydia Rex [Ep 395] Some of our precious kiddos live with their sensitivity and intensity turned up a notch from the rest of us. What we think should be simple or routine can trigger big outbursts from our kids. Daily life might feel chaotic ...
01.30.2023 Signpost Parenting :: Ann Voskamp [Ep 395] Who saw all that you’ve done today? Anyone? A mom’s work usually goes unacknowledged. We want to measure our work by how the house looks or how the children behave, or by how put together we look when we go ...

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Don't Mom Alone Podcast episodes:

Nobody’s Mother :: Dr. Sandra Glahn [Ep 443]

Sidetracked with the Holidays :: Pie-arrhea, Dutch Cabbage Patch Dolls and Advent Fails :: Cynthia and Heather [Ep 442]

How to Get Real and Savor More (Replay) :: Shauna Niequist [Ep 441]

Demystifying Financial Aid :: Kristi Steele [Ep 440]

Bedtime Rituals to End Worry Spirals :: Emily Ley [Ep 439]

Parenting as a Highly Sensitive Person :: Mary Van Geffen [Ep 438]

“Plump it Up”:: Sidetracked by 10 years of Podcasting [Ep 437]

The Most Memorable Moments :: Celebrating 10 Years of Don't Mom Alone [Ep 436]

The “Five-Timers” Club :: Celebrating 10 Years of Don’t Mom Alone [Ep 435]

The “Don’t Miss” List :: Celebrating 10 Years of Don’t Mom Alone [Ep 434]

Exchange False Beliefs with True Identity :: Jamie Winship [Ep 433]

Sidetracked with Fall, Homecoming and Sibling Conflict :: Cynthia and Heather [Ep 432]

“What is My Responsibility in My Child’s Salvation?” :: Vela Tomba [Ep 431]

Ministry in the Margins :: Angel Ricchuiti and Brittany Turner [Ep 430]

“Help, I’m Tired of Fighting with my Daughter about Clothes” :: Kari Kampakis [Ep 429]

My Kid Saw Porn, Now What? :: Mandy Majors [Ep 428]

Finding Courage to Speak Up When You’re Not OK :: Kristen Glass [Ep 427]

Sidetracked with Cynthia and Heather [Ep 426]

Cultivating a Healthy Relationship with Tech :: Joey Odom [Ep 425]

Braving the Tech Landscape Through Connection :: Chris McKenna [Ep 424]

Beating Expectations :: Cynthia and Heather [Ep 423]

Back-to-School & Tech Toolkit :: Dr. Kelly Jameson [Ep 422]

The Worry-Free Parent :: Sissy Goff [Ep 421]

Remaining You While Raising Them :: Alli Worthington [Ep 420]

The Goal Isn’t Happy Children :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 6 [Ep 419]

That Time We Googled Married Sex :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 5 [Ep 418]

Relationship + Respect (8 going on 18) :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 4 [Ep 417]

The Unicorn That is Adult Friendship :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 3 [Ep 416]

Raising Kids Who Can Stand Alone :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - Wk 2 [Ep 415]

Little Liar Face :: Cynthia Yanof - Summer of Mentorship - wk 1 [Ep 414]

Parenting Neurodivergent Children--Summer Edition :: Carrie Casell [Ep 413]

Mentoring for Women in the Workplace :: Diane Paddison [Ep 412]

A Mash-Up of Summer Support [Ep 411]

The Praying Mama :: Natasha Miller [Ep 410]

Parenting Ahead :: Kristen Hatton [Ep 409]

Important Topics to Cover with Tweens and Teens about Manners, Technology and Friendship :: Lee Cordon [Ep 408]

Occupying Suffering Spaces :: Cari Trotter [Ep 407] RWYB Series Wk 6

Shrinking or Swelling to Fill Your Space :: Courtney DeFeo [Ep 406]

Listening for God's Leading :: Caroline Cobb [Ep 405] RWYB wk 4

Identifying Your God-Given Space (Part 2) :: Sally Clarkson [Ep 404] RWYB Series wk 3

Identifying Your God-Given Space (Part 1) :: Cleere Cherry Reaves [Ep 403] RWYB wk 2

How to Never Miss Out :: Vaneetha Risner [Ep 402] RWYB Series Wk 1

How to be Truly Strong :: Aundi Kolber [Ep 401]

Guided by Faith :: Candace Cameron Bure [Ep 400]

Talking, Teens, and Twenty-four Years :: Bruce + Heather [Ep 399]

Students of Our Children :: Karen Stubbs [Ep 398]

On the Role of Women :: Joel Muddamalle [Ep 397]

Communication that Connects :: Kimberly Galindo [Ep 396]

Parenting Sensitive and Intense Kids :: Lynne Jackson and Lydia Rex [Ep 395]

Signpost Parenting :: Ann Voskamp [Ep 395]

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